{"id":68728,"date":"2023-12-18T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=68728"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T18:56:52","slug":"isnt-there-anyone-who-knows-what-christmas-is-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=68728","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIsn\u2019t There Anyone Who Knows What Christmas Is All About?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>For over a dozen years while we lived in Northwest Indiana, we would host a Christmas Eve party with over three dozen extended family members and friends. We all enjoyed great food, fun games, Christmas-themed Charades, and our White Elephant Gift Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>But the evening was never complete until we all read Luke 2:8-14 together. And then we would always watch a brief clip of\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>. It\u2019s the classic scene where Charlie Brown asks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIsn\u2019t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Linus responds with the best-ever answer to that question as he recites Luke 2:8-14.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Linus Drops His Blanket!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In watching and re-watching that scene for decades, I missed an incredibly poignant moment. Then I read Jason Soroski\u2019s post,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/special-coverage\/christmas-and-advent\/just-drop-the-blanket-the-moment-you-never-noticed-in-a-charlie-brown-christmas.html\"><em>Just Drop the Blanket<\/em><\/a>. Jason notes that right in the middle of reciting Luke 2:8-14,\u00a0<em>Linus drops his blanket<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s always clinging to his security blanket, until he reads the words from Luke 2, \u201c<em>Fear not<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Soroski explains, it\u2019s crystal clear what Charles Schulze was saying.\u00a0The birth of Jesus separates us from our fears.\u00a0The birth of Jesus frees us from our security blankets.\u00a0The birth of Jesus empowers us to drop all our false<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Linus, in A Charlie Brown Christmas, let\u2019s drop the blanket, trust Jesus, and fear not.<br \/>\nThe post \u201cIsn\u2019t There Anyone Who Knows What Christmas Is All About?\u201d appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":68730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5160,1143],"class_list":["post-68728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-charlie-brown","tag-christmas","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-4.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68731,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68728\/revisions\/68731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}